Akbar Gbajabiamila

But I just took what I had made from the NFL and I leveraged that on myself.

So you go ahead and you work for two years for free and then you move over to this other place for 26 grand a year.

26 grand a year.

And then what happened?

I got married, you know, and then I had a child.

And then good things started happening.

No, actually, no.

After I got married and, you know, and had a child.

I actually started running out of money and the next year I was making $28,500 and my money was just dwindling down.

I had gotten down to my last $40,000 left in my bank account after playing in the NFL because I worked for free for two years.

I had gotten married, you know, you know, kid on the way, you know, well, kid was born then at that time, you know, so now all of a sudden life just accelerated.

Everything just started costing.

At one point I moved back in 2010.

I had moved back to Crenshaw in the neighborhood that I grew up in and I'm living in my dad's house.

I'm living in my dad's house and I lived there for six years until I was able to kind of get back on my feet with my wife and my kids.

So my kids grew up part of their life.

They grew up in the same home, which was also an honor, but they grew up in the home that I grew up in.

And I remember my wife looking to me and going like, do you think you're chasing a pipe dream here?

Like, you know, you're going at it, but like, you know, the bills are adding up, stuff is stacking up on top of us.

And I was like, all right, maybe you're right.